# Jessica Jackley

> Jessica Jackley is a seed investor at SparkLabs Global Ventures backing Artificial Intelligence. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [SparkLabs Global Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sparklabs-global-ventures)
- Location: Los Angeles, United States
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 17%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicajackley
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jessicajackley
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jessica.jackley

Jessica Jackley is a seed investor at SparkLabs Global Ventures in Los Angeles focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Jessica Jackley is the Founder and CEO at Alltruists.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 67% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 50% |
| Predictive Analytics | 3 | 50% |
| B2B | 1 | 17% |
| DIY | 1 | 17% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 67% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Character | Character is a modern home improvement brand for the next generation of home dwellers. | $1.5M | Seed | May 10, 2023 |  |
| Olvin | Olvin helps reactive real-world businesses get ahead of the curve and become proactive through the use of its AI powered, predictive analytics platform. Harnessing billions of real world data points, from events and precise location, through to weather and points of interest, Olvin's advanced neural network identifies patterns. Through theuse of both probabilistic and deterministic scoring, Olvin's AI provides actionable insights to brands, retailers and businesses to give them an unparalleled opportunity to delight their customers, identify opportunities and get ahead of potential threats. |  | Seed | Aug 01, 2021 |  |
| Obviously AI | We believe that making AI accessible represents our greatest opportunity to empower the lives of everyday business users. That's why we have built a tool that enables non-technical business users to rapidly run predictions on their historical data, with just a few clicks. Allowing them to make better business decisions, fast. We are ObviouslyAI, a no-code AI startup based in San Francisco, CA. | $800K | Pre-Seed | Mar 03, 2020 |  |
| Zams (prev. Obviously AI) | At Zams, our vision is to turn every company into an AI company. We do it by combining the power of No-Code AI and human guided data prep to enable businesses to build custom and accurate AI and LLM models in a matter of days. | $800K | Pre-Seed | Mar 03, 2020 |  |
| Upstart | Upstart is a lending platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to price credit and automates the borrowing process. The company's proprietary underwriting model identifies borrowers despite limited credit and employment history by using variables including schools attended, area of study, and work experience. Upstartpowered banks can offer higher approval rates and experience lower loss rates*, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Carlos, California. | $5.9M | Series A | Apr 22, 2013 |  |
| Upstart | Upstart is a lending platform that leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to price credit and automates the borrowing process. The company's proprietary underwriting model identifies borrowers despite limited credit and employment history by using variables including schools attended, area of study, and work experience. Upstartpowered banks can offer higher approval rates and experience lower loss rates*, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Carlos, California. | $5.9M | Series A | Apr 22, 2013 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Arka Venture Labs](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arka-ventures-labs) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [B Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/b-capital-group) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [iSeed](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iseed-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Khosla Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/khosla-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About SparkLabs Global Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

SparkLabs Global Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers seed-stage investment services to firms in the SaaS, healthcare, education, IoT, fintech, mobile, commerce, HR, gaming, security, and VR industries. It was founded in Dec 2013 and is based in California.Exceptional entrepreneurs, that are building strong, category defining companiesat highly advantageous valuations – can be found anywhere. The company has a team that is highly experienced in finding such talent and helping our entrepreneurs to develop, grow, network, and scale into other markets throughout the world.

5 contacts available at SparkLabs Global Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Awy Julianto | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/awy-julianto |
| Jonathan Teo | Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jonathan-teo |
| William Chu | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/william-chu-2 |
| Bernard Moon | Co-founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bernard-moon |
| Eugene Kim | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eugene-kim-4 |

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## FAQ

### What does Jessica Jackley invest in?

Jessica Jackley invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Jessica Jackley last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jessica Jackley closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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